8 



Fourth. — Those plats which have received potash, doubtless 

 because this application favors clover, produce comparatively large 

 crops of rowen. This result has been particularly striking. 



Fifth. — The pliosphoric acid has not produced any very marked 

 results upon the growth either of the grass or clover. 



Sixth. — For a mixed crop of grass and clover I believe that an 

 application in early spring, consisting of a mixture containing 

 about the following materials in tlie quantities named per aero, 

 will generally be found profitable : — 



Nitrate of soda, ...... 



Tankage or dry fish 



Plain superphosphate, ... 



Ground South Carolina rock phospliate, . 

 Muriate of potash, ..... 



Corn. — The soil test with corn as the crop upon our grounds 

 the past season is in many respects the most striking of all we have 

 made with this crop, for this is the sixth season that the acre upon 

 which the crop was grown has been under similar treatment. The 

 crops, beginning with 1889, have been corn, corn, oats, grass, 

 grass and corn. The acre is divided into fourteen plats. Four 

 of these have received neither manure nor fertilizer during the six 

 years. These are plats numbered 3, G, 9, 12. 



The fertilizer treatment of all the plats for each year, from 

 1889 to 1894 inclusive, and the yield of corn and stover this year, 

 are shown in the table below : — 



No. 



Applied Yearly since 1889 per Acre. 



Stover 

 per Acre, 



1894 

 (Pounds). 



Nitrate of soda, one hundred and sixty pounds, . 



Dissolved bone black, three hundred and twenty pounds, 



Nothing, 



Muriate of potash, one hundred and sixty pounds, 



Lime, one hundred and sixty pounds 



Nothing, 



Farm-yard manure, five cords, 



Nitrate of soda, one hundred and sixty pounds,. 

 Dissolved bone-black, three hundred and twenty pounds. 



Nothing 



Nitrate of soda, one hundred and sixty pounds, . ) 

 Muriate of i^otash, one hundred and sixty pounds, \ 



Dissolved bone-black, three hundred and twenty pounds. 

 Muriate of potash, one hundred and sixty pounds, 



Nothing, 



Land plaster, one hundred aud sixty pounds, 



Nitrate of soda, one hundred and sixty pounds, . 

 Dissolved bone-black, three hundred and twenty pounds. 

 Muriate of potash, one hundred and sixty pounds, 



2,860 

 2,300 

 2,280 

 3,600 

 2,500 

 1,780 

 3,760 



1,840 



2,250 



4,100 



3,820 



1,620 

 2,740 



3,780 



Shelled 

 Com per 

 Acre, 1894 

 (Bushels). 



24 



19.5 



23 



44.5 



19.6 



13.9 



68.4 



22.3 



21.2 



47.6 



52.8 



17.9 

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